Whimsical word games

By NANCY REDDYStaff Writer

Skid

Dean Young

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

… Skid

Dean Young

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

Reading too much Dean Young induces a kind of poetry vertigo: after 10 or 15 pages you find yourself staring down at a dizzying pile of poems full of wild imagery and twisted metaphors.

You wonder: the poet